The goodie bag from hell at the SF Zoo

We got these “Old Maid” cards as part of the party favor package provided by the San Francisco Zoo — a package that included stickers, a pencil, a pad of paper and some other animal-themed … stuff.

Now, I admit that the zoo birthday party sounds appealing. You provide the money, and the zoo provides the rest — everything from pizza to cake to party favors. You basically show up and they throw you a party. Awesome.

If the zoo is going to lock parents into a special birthday package and not permit them to hand out their own favors, the least the place could do is make sure the toy giveaways aren’t racist throwbacks from a sad era. Did no one at the zoo even look at this game? Or if they did look, did they simply not care?

This is an excellent case in point against the goodie bag gewgaws probably made by children in foreign countries for children in this one who will just throw them away after 10 seconds.

Take a look at what drew my ire (larger image below) and tell me what you think: